This paper provides a summary of the key policies that encourage dedollarization. It focuses on cases in which the authorities’ intention is to gain greater control of monetary policy and draws on the experiences of countries that have successfully dedollarized. Unlike previous work on...

Since 1998, the staff of the International Monetary Fund has published a classification of countries' de facto exchange rate arrangements. Experience in operating this classification system has highlighted a need for changes. The present paper provides information on revisions to the system in...

This paper compares monetary policy of currency boards with that of the franc zone during the period 1956-2005. It concludes that monetary policy in the zone was more autonomous than under a currency board, even though both systems faced the same exchange rate constraint. So far, the contingency...

[fre] La fIXité nominale impose certaines contraintes pour être viable. Les unions de taux de change de type caisses d'émission et Zone franc garantissent la pérennité de l'ancrage. Elles maximisent ainsi [' effet de la ftxité nominale en contraignant la politique monétaire. Les effets...

[eng] Are currency board arrangements the illegitimate child of the orthodox currency boards ? . In the exchange rate argument surrounding Argentina bankruptcy, the currency board arrangements (CBA) born in the 90' s have been accused to be the illegitimate child of the orthodox currency boards...